Books 1-22
Characteristics of an Epic
Calling all the Monsters
Homeric Epithets
The Gods
100

Name of the Blind Seer

Who is Tiriserus

100

Odysseus's fatal Flaw

What is hubris?

100

One-eyed lawless giants who ate men.

Who are cyclopes?

100

I am Laertes Son

Who is Odysseus

100

The God who helped Odysseus withstand Circe's spell with the moly.

Who is Hermes?

200

The number of suitors in Odysseus's house

What is 100

200

Troy to Island of Lotus Eaters; Circe's Island, The Land of the Dead, Thranacia, and Ithaca.

What is the setting is vast

200

Six-headed beast with 12 tentacles and kills one man per mouth.

What is Scylla?

200

Our eyes were all fixed upon that "yawning mouth"

What is Charybdis

200

The father of Polyphemus.

Who is Poisiden?

300

 The name of Odysseus's loyal hunting dog

What is Argos?

300

Odysseus introduces himself in several lines to King Alcinuous.  He brags and tells his tales about the adventures he has had. 

What is the characters give long and formal speaches

300

Sings songs to lure seamen to their death.

What are Sirens?

300

Unhappy Spirit

What is Elpenor

300

Had sacred golden cattle.

Who is Helios?

400

The number of years it took Odysseus to get back to Ithaca

What is 20?

400

It has more than one conflict in the storyline

What is a parallel plot

400
Turned the men into pigs

Who is Circe?

400

The blinded thing

What is Polyphemus

400

Destroyed Odysseus's ship and killed his crew after the men ate Helios's cattle.

Who is Zeus?

500

String the bow, and shoot the arrow through 12 axen head holes.

What is the contest

500

Scylla, Charbidys, Polyphemus, and the Sirens

What is the plot is complicated by supernatural beings

500

Made the men forget of home.

Who are the Lotus Eaters

500

Raider of Cities

What is Odysseus

500

Advises Odysseus to return to Ithaca as a beggar.

Who is Athena?

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